When your hear people using phrases such as “employer branding” and “employee value proposition”, it’s easy to think that this is being dealt with by your marketing department or may even be something that you don’t need to consider.

It seems that for years many businesses have assumed that they know what makes their employees loyal to them, however how can we be so sure that our perceptions in the current climate is accurate?

Ever considered using videos to recruit your next member of the team? Checking the internet’s funniest and bizarre recruitment related videos here.

It is often the case that certain functions within businesses are “looked after” by a certain individual, someone who may be trusted by the Senior Managers and Directors but are you focusing training on the level of right staff?

Effective as of 6th April 2010; Staff working at businesses that employ more than 250 staff will now be able to make a request under the New ‘Time to Train’ legislation. The right to request this was included in the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act, which received Royal Assent in November 2009.

Having had the pleasure of successfully training a number of different people from different professional backgrounds in the art of selling, I have particularly seen that the most basic of principles be most effective in the ever changing world of sales.